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Every time Peter has to choose whether to do his self-appointed job or seize one irreplaceable personal moment with Liz, the strain shows on his face. Civil War made his conflicts big, funny, and thrilling. Homecoming makes them personal.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

As an introduction, it's functional. As a template for future films, it's a warning that Dark Universe filmmakers are going to need to think about the stories they're telling as much as the stories they're planning.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

The action is crisp and thrilling, but more importantly, it's meaningful... In fierceness and sheer badass fighting prowess, Wonder Woman is a match for the other heroes in her franchise. But in courage and certainty, she tops all of them.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

Hiccups aside, though, The Endless rapidly develops from a mysterious, elliptical story about cult survivors and strained relationships into a much larger and stranger movie, essentially the Aliens to Resolution's original Alien.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

Eggers' book pushes past satire into dark farce, where the story's hyperbole feels more like a gag than a coherent warning about the future. The film version doesn't even feel pointed enough to be satire.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

It's okay to cover the classics; practically every musician wants to play around with their idols' work. But Life feels like a strictly subtractive cover of Alien that loses too much of what made it memorable, and doesn't bring enough new to the table.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

The cinematography and onstage camera access are terrific - one up-close-and-personal wraparound shot of the stage dancers feels like an immersive VR experience waiting to happen.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

It's a melancholy final visit in light of the recent death of both its subjects. But it's still a rare chance for viewers to sneak behind those weird, eccentric compound gates, and hang out as if they were part of the family.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

Moana functions as well as it does because the story team ultimately focused on finding everything about Disney stories that worked in 2016, and improving everything that didn't.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

If nothing else, it's fun to see that there's a Potterverse outside Harry Potter himself. His world has always been big enough to sustain other stories. Finally, it has a chance to.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

The bizarre fortune-cookie philosophy of its coda just emphasizes how impoverished this film feels when it comes to unifying themes, or a big picture that would find meaning in all the little incidents.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

It feels like a curio -- not an eerie, unexplained one, like the vintage photographs that inspired Riggs' Miss Peregrine trilogy, but a dated and familiar one, yanked out of the dusty old boxes piled up in the Burton archive.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

Mira Nair's inspirational chess drama Queen of Katwe is remarkable in the simplest but most profound way: it's an American film about Africa that doesn't feel like it was made by tourists.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

The craft of La La Land is impeccable, from the energetically active camera to the staging and production design that re-creates the past without feeling dated. But there's a reckless cockiness to the production as well.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

It's a patient film, and it requires some patience from its audience. But its rewards are gentle and winning, and for once, a cinematic history lesson that doesn't feel artificial and processed in every pore.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

It's not enough to acknowledge that film is doing moviegoers a service in telling a story they may not find familiar. It also has to be acknowledged that it tells it in a wearyingly familiar, conventional way.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

At 132 minutes, the story drags to the point where even natural beauty and sweet intimacy start to wear on the nerves. Cianfrance pushes too hard for his audience's emotional response, with little nuance and strange selectivity.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

First, the film doesn't have any particularly intelligent or clever answers to its own what-if premise. Second, it's operating in the shadow of other science-fiction films that do engage with the same questions.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

The film never comes up with a mission statement or a message that might tie together its wandering scenes, or explain its vague melancholy. In the end, it feels like a life-support system for a single perfect scene .&dash; The Verge - EDIT

Don't Breathe is still a thrilling experience that effectively puts the audience in the protagonists' place: uncertain, cringing, afraid to even breathe because of the potential consequences.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

David Mackenzie's terrifically tense Western Hell or High Water is set in the present, but it keeps emphasizing that in some key ways, life hasn't changed in West Texas since pioneer days.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

It doesn't necessarily fall to this film to define what a villain's journey really means. But like its characters, it's free to operate on its own terms, and it'd be a much stronger story if it took full advantage of that freedom.&dash; The Verge - EDIT

Until a richer villain and more thought-out story come along, we at least have this chapter, which offers fans of the original Trek world some of the things they've most wanted: space to enjoy all their old heroes, and reasons to respect them again.&dash; The Verge - EDIT